The project aesthetic programming explores the humanistic/aesthetic/cultural/critical perspective in examining code and coding practice, understanding the interplay between technical processes and human meaning-making processes in both micro and macro scales.

Considering coding/computational practice as a mode of critical and aesthetic enquiry to understand/reveal, and think with, the implication and affordance of digital culture- a condition that we are highly engaged with, and surrounded by, software and networked systems, we ask how might we think with code and coding practice beyond building functional and pragmatic applications? How might we understand and reflect upon cultural systems through aesthetic programming?

• Soon, W. & Knotts, S., (2019) ‘Aesthetic Coding: Exploring Computational Culture Beyond Creative Coding‘. Proceedings of Art Machines: International Symposium on Computational Media Art.